The Dusty Interstellar Medium

• the sky in
  • optical
  • near infrared
  • mid-far infrared
  • far infrared/mm: thermal dust; with polarization
  • radio: CO line emission
• visible and IR M31
• gas-phase abundance depletion pattern here and here

Radiation from Relativitic Matter

Special Relativity and Radiation

• motivation: special relativity in astrophysics
  • relativistic jets and superluminal(?) motion
  • cosmic rays
• Lorentz transformations
• velocity addition and beaming
• transformation properties of electromagnetic fields